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senting many of those indefinite symptoms which accompany 
the disease recognised in Germany as due to unwholesome 
sausages, and distinguished as a special kind of poison. In 
Wirtemburg, there occurred, in twenty years, 155 cases, 
distinctly traced to the “ sausage poison and of these 84 
died. In districts where the sausages are eaten fresh, the 
disease is correspondingly rare. The symptoms are slow in 
progress and most indefinite: abdominal pains; tormina; 
oppressed respiration; irregular action of the heart; consti- 
pation, sometimes alternating with diarrhoea; diminution of 
the secretions and of nervous energy; a hoarse voice and 
frequent cough; a cold skin, with the hands and feet dry 
and hot. These are laid down as the most marked symp- 
toms due to the influence of the animal poison, and which 
w 7 ear away the thread of life until death finally ensues from 
syncope. Now it is in no way proved that the sausage poison 
of Germany is confined to that country. On the other hand, 
we have it stated by a manufacturer, that the putrefaction 
most likely to generate a poisonous condition is the normal 
state of the sausages supplied for the food of the poor of 
London. The subject is one deserving earnest attention ; 
especially as we are warned that the terrible murrain which 
in 1745 destroyed 80,000 cattle in one year is now ap- 
proaching our shores. It is evident that the conscientious 
folks who cut up decomposed flesh into sausages would be 
little likely to feel any qualms of conscience about the con- 
version of diseased meat to the same purpose. — Lancet . 
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HACKS AND HUNTERS. 
( Continued from p. 1 7 1 •) 
Turn we then to the hunter, and see how far he demands 
our consideration before and after his run with the hounds. 
It will be unnecessary to dwell upon the course of training 
proper to be carried out, as we are not writing for the stud 
groom, but mainly for those whose hunters will be most 
effectively trained by their performance of general work 
during the time they are not required for the field. Assum- 
ing, then, the animal to be in a condition to go, let us at the 
outset oppose our protest to the absurd system of giving no 
